On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > > Matlab exploits them heavily (though represented as doubles).
>
> > Not sure what you are referring to
>
> I had in mind Matlab's frequent use of a Boolean array as
> a characteristic function describing some property of the
> elements
On 10/12/2012, at 6:34 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
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> On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>
>> In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as
>> programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.
>>
>> Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets since the
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> > Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets since the beginning.
> Never thought of that -- nice!
Unfortunately it's not literally true, because spreadsheets push
recalculated values to all the variables that depend on them,
rather than waiting until the dependent values are needed. But
t
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>Christopher Howard wrote:
>Concerning a university education, there are two approaches>
>1. I want to learn as much as possible
>2. I want to learn just enough to get a high-paying job
There's actually a third approach ( and probably more):
3. I want to learn to do th
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
>
> On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>
> > In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as
> > programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.
> >
> > Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets sinc
On 9 Dec 2012, at 16:31, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> In fact the FP community came late to some of these, just as
> programming languages at large came late to garbage collection.
>
> Lazy evaluation--at the heart of spreadsheets since the beginning.
Lazy evaluation for the lambda calculus - 1971 (W
Thanks Doug for reminding me of points that I had forgotten (and which are
new)
I will insert them into the blog
My comments inline
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > Yes... CS academics delivers less than it could/should;
> > and whatever this delivery is, its asymptotical
> Yes... CS academics delivers less than it could/should;
> and whatever this delivery is, its asymptotically sub-linear.
> Some of it is to do with the not-quick-enough takeup of FP in academia,
> though there are obviously many other factors as well.
> http://blog.languager.org/2011/02/cs-educat
Christopher Howard wrote:
I'm at something of a crossroads, and I'm hoping to get a bit of free
career advice. I really enjoy programming with Haskell (and a few other
exotic languages), and was hoping I could eventually make a living in
that sort of field. Not rich and famous, necessarily, just
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk <
jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr> wrote:
> For me, opposing experience and education is simply silly.
>
> Probably more than 70% of all people would learn much faster on their own
> than at school. But, learn WHAT? :
>
> 1. Probably less than 1% wo
Roman Cheplyaka comments a post by Christopher Howard:
I'm trying to decide, however; should I go back to
school, finish my B.S. and pursue a Masters in CompSci? Or would the
time (and money) be better spent aggressively pursuing volunteer work
for companies, hoping to eventually get the experien
* Christopher Howard [2012-12-08
13:26:58-0900]
> I'm at something of a crossroads, and I'm hoping to get a bit of free
> career advice. I really enjoy programming with Haskell (and a few other
> exotic languages), and was hoping I could eventually make a living in
> that sort of field. Not rich
I'm at something of a crossroads, and I'm hoping to get a bit of free
career advice. I really enjoy programming with Haskell (and a few other
exotic languages), and was hoping I could eventually make a living in
that sort of field. Not rich and famous, necessarily, just enough to get
by comfortably
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